All canker sore synonyms
can·ker sore
C c noun canker sore
- canker — A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people.
- cold sore — Cold sores are small sore spots that sometimes appear on or near someone's lips and nose when they have a cold.
- fever blister — cold sore.
- lesion — an injury; hurt; wound.
- herpes labialis — oral herpes.
- herpes simplex — either of two herpes diseases caused by a herpesvirus that infects humans and some other animals and produces small, transient blisters on the skin or mucous membranes, one type of virus (herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1) usually associated with oral herpes but also causing genital herpes and the other (herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2) usually causing genital herpes.
- oral herpes — a disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 1, characterized primarily by a cluster of small, transient blisters chiefly at the edge of the lip or nostril; herpes labialis.